HERODOTUS

BOOK IX. 27-28men. Command us then, as knowing that we willobey." Thus the Athenians answered ;and thewhole army shouted aloud that the Athenians wereworthier to hold the wing than the Arcadians. Thusthe Athenians were preferred to the men of Tegea,and gained that place.28. Presently the whole Greek army was arrayedas I shall show, both the later and the earliestcomers. On the right wing were ten thousandLacedaemonians ;five thousand of these, who wereSpartans, had a guard of thirty-five thousand lighta/medhelots, seven appointed for each man. TheSpartans chose the Tegeans for their neighbours inthe battle, both to do them honour, and for theirvalour; there were of these fifteen hundred men-atarms.Next to these in the line were five thousandCorinthians, at whose desire Pausanias suffered thethree hundred Potidaeans from Pallene then presentto stand by them. Next to these were six hundredArcadians from Orchomenus, and after them threethousand men of Sicyon. By these a thousandTroezenians were posted, and after them two hundredmen of Lepreum, then four hundred from Mycenaeand Tiryns, and next to them a thousand from Phlius.By these stood three hundred men of Hermione.Next to the men of Hermione were six hundredEretrians and Styreans ;next to them, four hundredChalcidians ;next again, five hundred Ampraciots.After these stood eight hundred Leucadians andAnactorians, and next to them two hundred fromVOL. IV.193